Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday in HD (or 4K) and surround sound.
The Super Bowl is a great excuse to upgrade your home entertainment system.
Check with your provider for HD content pricing and options.
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If you’re watching the game through an OTA signal, you will need anantenna.
If you’d prefer to live-stream the game, you havemany optionsfor that, too.
You will need a fast internet connection to stream any content in HD.
Whatever your viewing method, to receive HD content, you need an HDTV.
Check out our suggestions for 1080p LED/LCD TVs and 4K Ultra HD TVs, including LED/LCD and OLED.
Another display option is anOLED TV.
When shopping for your Super Bowl TV,be wary of Curved Screens.
You will need avideo projectorand alarge screen or a blank white wall.
A growing number of projectors are bright enough for such conditions.
Use projectors in a dimly lit or light controllable room.
If you have a small room, you might consider ashort throw projector.
Here’s how to get surround sound on HDMI, non-HDMI, and OTA devices.
A more direct audio path for HDMI systems is anAudio Return Channel(ARC).
Connect directly from the box to the digital optical audio input connection on your home theater receiver.
you might now dive into the surround sound signal from the cable or satellite feed.
If you don’t have a home theater system to complement your HDTV, consider getting a soundbar orhome-theater-in-a-box.
Check to see if your home theater system has aDolby Prologic II, IIx, or DTS Neo:6setting option.
If so, you will still be able to get a surround sound signal from the stereo input signal.
However, it is not as effective as a surround sound signal through a digital optical audio connection.
We update this article for each year’s Super Bowl.
